Why The State Fair Of Texas Sucks: It Exploits Cute Animals.

The Cute Animals Placed On Display Aren’t Really Having Much Fun In Their Enclosures. In Fact, They Can Often Act Out, Distressed By Gawking Crowds.

Unlike seemingly every other media outlet in Dallas and, to a degree, the whole goddamn state, we here at Central Track aren’t exactly enamored with the State Fair of Texas. Why? Because, for starters, we’re not kids any more, and we’re no longer oblivious to the ways of the world. But also for a litany of other reasons, which we’ll happily run down for you here, one per day, over the entire course of the fair’s 2017 run.

Stephanie Coon of Fort Worth, who posted the video, notes that the giraffe also appeared to have a cut on its chest and was bleeding from its nose. Poor thing!

The good news, we suppose, is that it the giraffe has since been removed from the petting zoo and taken back to Kansas, where the petting zoo vendor the State Fair of Texas uses houses the rest of his exotic animals.

Listen, just because something is tradition doesn’t mean it can’t be improved upon. An easy place to start would be to leave the giraffes and other exotic animals elsewhere over the course of the fair’s run. Standing around and getting stared at by throngs of snot-nosed kids isn’t anyone’s idea of a good time, and the animals at the State Fair of Texas are no different in that regard.

Disagree? OK, that’s a little cold-blooded of you. But, whatever, we’re happy to concede that point to you — so long as you can explain us why in the world exotic animals like giraffes are even at the State Fair of Texas in the first place.

Really: These animals aren’t native to Texas — like, at all. That’s what makes them exotic.

Beyond serving as a cruel draw to get people out to the fairgrounds each fall, what do they have to do with celebrating the history of this state?